The Free-standing company in the world economy, 1830-1996
By: edited by Mira Wilkins and Harm Schröter.
Contributors: Wilkins, Mira.; Schröter, Harm G., 1948-
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 480
Subjects: International business enterprises -- History.; Investments, Foreign -- History.; Corporations, Foreign -- History.; Corporations, American -- History.; Corporations, European -- History.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [440]-461) and index.
Includes rewritten papers from a session on free-standing companies held at the 11th International Economic History Congress, in Milan, Italy, Sept. 1994.
Table of contents: title: The free-standing company revisited -- Mira Wilkins; title: Transcation-cost theory and the free-standing firm -- Jean-François Hennart; title: An economic theory of the free-standing company -- Mark Casson; title: The free-standing company, in theory and practice -- T.A.B. Corley; title: Free-standing companies in India, 1883-1912 -- Peter Hertner; title: British free-standing companies in Tsarist Russia -- Natalia Gurushina; title: British free-standing companies and investment groups in India and the Far East -- Stanley Chapman; title: British free-standing companies on the West Coast of South America -- Rory Miller; title: British free-standing companies in Mexico, 1884-1911 -- Reinhard Liehr and Mariano E. Torres Bautista; title: A French free-standing company in Brazil's sugar industry : a case study of the Société de Sucreries Bresiliennes, 1907-1922 -- Tamás Szmrecsányi; title: Dutch free-standing companies, 1870-1940 -- Ben P.A. Gales and Keetie E. Sluyterman -- Continental European free-standing companies : the case of Belgium, Germany, and Switzerland / -- Harm Schröter; title: British overseas banks as free-standing companies, 1830-1996 -- Geoffrey Jones; title: US foreign direct investment in electric utilities in the 1920s -- William J. Hausman and John L. Neufeld; title: The Montreal Engineering Company and international power : overcoming the limitations of the free-standing utility -- Gregory P. Marchildon; title: The significance of the concept and a future agenda -- Mira Wilkins.